Table 1.

Summary of the Literature: leptin's role in cancer promotion*.

Cancer type	Antiapoptosis	Proliferation	Migration	Angiogenesis
Bone		24
Breast	28, 46	27, 56	23, 65	38, 69
Cartilage			32
Colon	48	57, 58	20, 62, 64	58
Endometrial	34	30, 31, 34
Esophageal	51
Gallbladder		53	53
Gastric		25, 59
Glioma	77		74
Kidney		29
Large B-cell lymphoma	33
Leukemia	47	47		71
Liver	52	41, 52	26	70
Lung	53
Neuroblastoma	49	49
Ovarian		55
Prostate	50	50	37, 39, 40
Thyroid	36	36	63	37
Uterine				68

*Numbers correspond to works cited.